Robert Haley Asher was born 28 March 1868, in California to parents Josephus Marian Asher, Sr. and Sarah H. Clark. Robert Asher’s father was a nurseyman and County Assessor in San Diego. Robert Asher first visited Palomar Mountain in 1901, and settled on Palomar Mountain in 1903. Asher lived in the Pauma Creek / State Park area on Palomar Mountain, and also lived off Palomar part of the year working as a nurseryman. On Palomar, Asher took and sold photographs of campers, trapped animals for pelts, worked odd jobs around Palomar Mountain, collected and sold wild plants, etc. Robert Asher took Maurice Braun’s class in oil painting at Mesa Grande. Asher moved off Palomar Mountain in 1946 to his sister's (Mrs. Josephine A. Vacher) place in El Cajon, and continued to visit Palomar Mountain until 1951. Asher passed away in 25 April 1953 at age 85.